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My Years with the Arabs - Sir John Glubb
My Years with the Arabs
General Sir John Glubb
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My Years with the Arabs
About the Author
About ISF
About Idries Shah
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MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 8
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My Years with the Arabs
Anyone who writes or speaks about Arabs is obliged, first of all, to say what he means by the word – who, in his opinion, the Arabs are. This introduction involves a little history. Basically, of course, the Arabs were the people who lived in the peninsula of Arabia, an area which today includes Saudi Arabia, the west side of the Persian Gulf, Oman and South Arabia and the Yemen. As most of the inhabitants of this area were nomadic, the word Arab also came to have the secondary meaning of nomads.
Let us begin our brief historical review in the seventh century AD. The world (omitting India and China) was at that time divided between an Eastern